Karl Lange (historian)

Karl Lange (born September 17, 1893 in Braunschweig ; † May 14, 1983 ibid) was a German school principal and historian .

Life

Lange studied German literature , history and philosophy and received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1923 . In 1930 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1949. Since 1935 he was a member of the historical commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen.

Lange headed the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig from 1950 to 1958 .

Fonts

• Bismarck's fall and public opinion in Germany and abroad. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1927.
• Citizenship studies for the higher schools in the Free State of Braunschweig. Rieke in Komm., Braunschweig 1928.
• Braunschweig in 1866. Wagner in Komm., Braunschweig 1929.
• Bismarck's struggle for the military convention with Braunschweig 1867–86. Böhlau, Weimar 1934.
• The fire of the residential palace in Braunschweig in 1865. JH Meyer, Braunschweig 1949.
• Hitler's neglected maxims. My struggle and the public. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1968.
• Marne battle and German public. 1914-1939. A suppressed defeat and its consequences. Bertelsmann University Press , Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-571-05047-9 .
• The Crisis of the German Confederation (1866) from the perspective of the French legation in Hanover and Braunschweig. Lax, Hildesheim 1978, ISBN 3-7848-2613-1 .

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .
• Uwe Lammers: Biography Chapter 2: The silent democrat - Karl Lange. In: Same: Seven Lives. Scientist biographies at the cultural studies department of the Technical University of Braunschweig during National Socialism. Seminar for Philosophy, Braunschweig 2015, pp. 50–62 ( online ).

Web links

• The headmasters of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium on wilhelm-gym.de